Deck 15: More About Ethics

Question 1

Life and Liberty for All Who Believe is a documentary about:

A) The rhetorical founding of America
B) Nazi war trials in Israel
C) The religious right in America
D) The creation of the university in America

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Stanley Fish:

A) Is one of America's most distinguished professors
B) Wrote the Academic Bill of Rights
C) Argues that the redress of injustice is not an academic issue
D) A and B only
E) A and C only

Answer 2

A

Question 3

David Horowitz:

A) Seeks state legislation to make sure that faculty members teach only in their subject areas
B) Is a well-known American historian
C) Argues in favor of academic freedom for professors
D) B and C

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which is not an ethical issue that reappears in debates about faculty advocacy?

A) Relevance
B) Power
C) Causing offense
D) Tenure

Question 5

Liberatory faculty advocacy argues that:

A) Professors must expose and critique hegemony
B) Professors must withhold opinion and seek to avoid bias
C) Professors must cover at least two sides to serious issues
D) Professors must present standard canonical texts

Question 6

Robert Pirsig:

A) Was an English professor
B) Engaged in pedagogical talk about pedagogical talk
C) Argued that college grades should be abolished
D) All of the above

Question 7

Chief among demagogic rhetoric is:

A) Hegemony
B) Pedagogy
C) Melodrama
D) All of the above

Question 8

The Washington Post had planned an event considered ethically suspect, and cancelled it when they found out. This event was:

A) A conference for Wyeth pharmaceutical company to promote a new and promising drug.
B) A breakfast supporting faith-based initiatives in Washington,
C) An off-the-record dinner meeting with congressional and administrative officials.
D) None of the above

Question 9

Perception management:

A) Is a variation on information warfare
B) Is a synonym for public diplomacy
C) Is a symptom of mindlessness
D) Is a condition of mindfulness

Question 10

Second-order mindfulness:

A) Involves the engagement of a larger system
B) Is now possible due to cybertechnologies
C) Involves thinking about the process of decision making itself
D) None of the above

Question 11

Betty Friedan and Harvey Milk exemplify communication activism.

Question 12

The issue of professional advocacy has been thoroughly debated and is mostly settled.

Question 13

Stanley Fish sees "spin" as the very content of thinking and judging.

Question 14

David Horowitz is the conservative author of the "Academic Bill of Rights."

Question 15

Liberatory faculty advocacy seeks to expose and critique hegemony.

Question 16

The position from counter-hegemony argues for polarizing rhetoric that seeks to motivate members to hate and scapegoat outsiders.

Question 17

Perception management's purpose is to get the other side to believe what one wishes it to believe, whatever the truth might be.

Question 18

Langer says that repetition is one of the major causes of mindlessness.

Question 19

The "banality of evil" involved white southern slaveholders in 19th-century America.

Question 20

List and explain the six components involved in discussions about faculty advocacy in the classroom.

Question 21

Compare and contrast circumscribed versus liberal faculty advocacy. Which view do you find more ethically sound and why?

Question 22

Consider Robert Pirsig's persuasive case about college grades. What, exactly, did he argue? Where and when did his argument occur? Critique it: Is he right? Did he argue his case in an ethically sound way?

Question 23

Present the argument of David Horowitz and also the critique offered by Steinberger. Is Horowitz a demagogue? If so, why? If not, why not?

Question 24

What is the "banality of evil" and why does it stand in the way of ethical persuasion?